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surprisingly, and impressively, played
three in college, too, at Spalding Uni-
versity in Louisville. She was the
league MVP in softball at Spalding
where she was coached by both par-
ents for a couple years, which was
nothing new, really. Like with his
boys, Oscar made time to be active in
Kim's athletic pursuits, starting with
coaching her in basketball and T-ball
as a kid, and mom Donna passed
along her considerable softball acu-
men.
"Kim was really good," Oscar said.
"I'm coaching her in T-ball, and one
of the moms got really mad at me,
saying I was favoring the boys. This
was boys and girls. I said, 'I try not to.'
I said, 'You know our first baseman?'
She says, 'Yeah, yeah, you favor him.'
I said, 'Well, that's not a boy.' She
didn't look like a boy.
"Kim was probably our best player.
I go, 'That's my daughter playing first
base.' She went, 'Oh.'"
In an unofficial poll of sorts, Kim,
Greg and youngest sibling Brian were
asked who the best athlete in the
family was. Right after Greg said, "ev-
ery one of us would say ourselves," he
shifted gears.
"Somebody who doesn't get a lot of
credit is my sister, Kim. She played
three sports in college, which is un-
usual," he said. "I'm going to say
Kim."
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Bearooz Yacoobi
Junior, Building Construction Management Technology
Yacoobi, an offensive lineman for the 2017 football team, was
honored by the Big Ten as one of the 54 members at Purdue to earn
the conference's Distinguished Scholar Award. The list features
students from all 14 conference institutions and 38 sports who posted
a minimum grade point average of 3.7 or higher for the 2016-17
academic year.
This year's list of honorees includes at least 155 students with a
flawless 4.0 GPA in 2016-17, including Bree Horrocks, Jimmy
Herman, Ted Curtiss, Grace Hernandez, Hanna House, Luke Lewis, Susan Hubbard and
Amy Poynter. Purdue's list of 2017 award recipients features degrees in a variety of diverse
fields, including mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, speech, language
and hearing sciences, biological engineering, chemistry, biology, economics, mass
communication, actuarial science, finance and more.